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@mezyukho Originally, Los Angeles. Now reside in Cheboksary.

Доброе утро, Россия! 🇷🇺 Давайте сделаем перекличку: откуда Вы, друзья?

@ELENA_TOLSTOYA When did this take place? I would have taken a bus from Cheboksary to see this. We have something similar in Reno, Nevada (where I moved from) called Balloon Races. I loved going to it every year.

When we have Cappadocia "at home" Nizhny Novgorodd♥️

@RussianForce_ Yes!

Do you view Russian culture with pride and respect ? A. Yes B. No

@sashameetsrus While in Kazan, you should make your way over to Cheboksary and check out our beautiful city.

Sanctions in Russia? The Moscow Market in Kazan didn’t get the memo.

If we're going to assign responsibility, let's start with the facts. Trump did not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally shut down the country, and he didn't. Most COVID restrictions came from governors and mayors. We can debate whether those policies were wise, but history should be based on what actually happened, not on lies.

We may never recover from the time Trump unconstitutionally shut down the entire country for COVID. Prices are still up over 25%-30%. Years worth of inflation all at once.

@zhukova_nasty Yep. I did it yesterday while walking through the Cheboksary Botanic Garden Forest.

Люди , которые кладут мусор в карман , пока не найдут урну , вы ещё остались ?

Beautiful sunset on the Volga.

Russia did sign the Founding Act, and it does affirm the sovereignty of states. My point is simply that Russia continued to express concerns about NATO enlargement afterwards. Recognizing those concerns existed isn't the same as arguing Russia had a legal veto over another country's decisions.

@dponti @SnowBlizzardi @LauraLoomer @USAmbNATO 3/8 You omitted the document Russia actually signed. The NATO-Russia Founding Act respected states' sovereignty and security choices, denied Russia any veto, and created consultation and cooperation. Moscow objected, negotiated, then accepted those principles.

Russia just fired drones at Kyiv while the US Ambassador to NATO is in town. @USAmbNATO

@ErukanuSenpai @SnowBlizzardi @LauraLoomer @USAmbNATO I'm not saying every action that followed needs to be evaluated the same way. My point is simply that the EU report concluded Georgia launched the large-scale assault on Tskhinvali, while also noting different aspects of how events unfolded afterwards.

@SnowBlizzardi @dponti @LauraLoomer @USAmbNATO 2/2 The same report found Russia's campaign deep inside Georgia went far beyond defending peacekeepers and was not legally justified. So no, "Georgia fired first" does not turn Russia's wider invasion, occupation and recognition of breakaway regions into self-defence.

You're arguing against a claim I didn't make. Poland, Hungary, and Czechia absolutely had the sovereign right to join NATO. That doesn't mean Russia had to see it as harmless. The question isn't whether those countries had agency. The question is whether Russian leaders consistently viewed NATO expansion as a security threat—the historical record shows they did, whether you agree with that view or not.

@dponti @SnowBlizzardi @LauraLoomer @USAmbNATO 2/8 Yeltsin warning Clinton shows Russian opposition, not that NATO "forced" a war 29 years later. Poland, Hungary and Czechia sought membership after decades under Moscow's domination. Their agency does not vanish because the Kremlin disliked their choice.

No one said European states were "Russian property" or that Russia had a legal veto. The point is much simpler: great powers often react to major military alliances moving closer to their borders. Whether those concerns are accepted or rejected is a separate question. A country can have the legal right to choose its alliances, while another country can view that choice as a serious security threat. Those ideas aren't mutually exclusive. I'm talking about why events unfolded the way they did—not arguing that Russia had the legal authority to decide for its neighbors.

@dponti @SnowBlizzardi @LauraLoomer @USAmbNATO 1/8 No, your post is BS Your timeline proves only that Moscow objected. Objection is not causation, consent or a veto. European states are sovereign actors, not Russian property. Russia itself signed commitments respecting every state's right to choose its security arrangements.

@blueeyes367 @LauraLoomer @McDonalds Yes! Much better.

@LauraLoomer @McDonalds What a dumb post. American McDonald's is horrible. The one in Russia is prob 10x better with no dyes, bad ingredients, vegetable oil etc this shit is not organic

Tucker Qatarlson went to a FAKE McDonalds in Moscow, Russia. I had the real deal in Kyiv, Ukraine, at a @McDonalds that was once again struck by a Russian ballistic missile last week. It turns out, sanctions actually *do* work! And secondary sanctions are going to work even better! 😉 Cc: @TuckerCarlson @KremlinRussia_E @POTUS @SecRubio @SecScottBessent @SenateGOP @SenateDems @HouseGOP @HouseDemocrats

@RussianArmy_ Yes!

🇷🇺 Do you support the Russian Army? ✅ Yes ❌ No

Fire dancing down at the Volga.

Got a lucky shot last night. Near the Volga River, Cheboksary.

BS! It was, and a lot more. NATO and the West pushed Russia into a corner, and they responded. 1993 - Boris Yeltsin warned President Clinton that NATO enlargement would damage European security and Russian-Western relations. 1997 - the Russian government strongly objected to NATO's first eastward expansion before Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined. 2007 - Vladimir Putin, at the Munich Security Conference, called NATO expansion "a serious provocation" and questioned who it was directed against. 2008 - Russian leadership opposed NATO's Bucharest declaration that Ukraine and Georgia "will become members of NATO." 2014 - Russian government: Following the change of government in Kyiv, repeatedly cited Ukraine's possible NATO integration as a major security concern. 2021- Vladimir Putin and the Foreign Ministry issued numerous statements demanding legally binding guarantees that Ukraine would never join NATO. Russia also published draft treaties proposing limits on NATO expansion.

@SnowBlizzardi @LauraLoomer @USAmbNATO Update your script Ivan, it was never about "NATO expansion"

@RussianForce_ Yes

If President Vladimir Putin personally offered you Russian citizenship, would you accept it ? A. Yes B. No

This really resonates with me. I'm an American, and I moved to Russia a little over two years ago. Before I came, I had all kinds of ideas about what life here would be like. Most of them turned out to be wrong. What I've found is a country with genuinely kind people, a strong sense of family, and friends who've treated me like one of their own. I love the everyday life here in Cheboksary—the walks along the Volga, the community, and the feeling that life doesn't have to be lived at full speed all the time. I've learned that you can't understand a country through news headlines or people who've never lived there. You have to experience it for yourself. Moving here is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

"It's not my culture, not my language, not my history. But as an American, a total outsider, Russia is by far the favorite country I've visited." Tucker confirms his (dare I say mutual) love affair with Russia to our very own Tara Reade & Olga Bataman. Eat your hearts out, Russophobes.

@jason_alberty @LindseyGrahamSC Me too!

Ukraine has exceeded every expectation in terms of liberating their country from Russian invasion and is worthy of continued increased support. My Russia sanctions bill with Senator Blumenthal can make a real difference. The legislation - with wide and deep bipartisan support - would allow President Trump to put tariffs on the top countries that buy cheap Russian oil and natural gas to prop up Putin’s war machine.   In my opinion, this summer is the time to go all in to put pressure on Putin to get to the peace table and end the bloodbath.

Stop what you are doing and watch this video. Our entire society has been brainwashed over generations against itself. Our kids will be the final victims if we don’t reverse course now.